Coltrane (1962 album)

Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. When reissued on CD, it featured a Coltrane composition dedicated to his hero "Big Nick" Nicholas that Coltrane would record later the same year for his Duke Ellington collaboration Duke Ellington & John Coltrane. The composition "Tunji" was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.

For the 1957 album of the same name by John Coltrane, see Coltrane (1957 album).
Coltrane
Studio album by
John Coltrane
ReleasedJuly 1962[1]
RecordedApril 11, June 19, 20, and 29, 1962
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreModal jazz
Length39:55
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
John Coltrane chronology
Live! at the Village Vanguard
(1962)		 Coltrane
(1962)		 Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Down Beat[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[6]

Critical reception

Allmusic's Michael G. Nastos called the album "a most focused effort, a relatively popular session to both [Coltrane's] fans or latecomers, with five selections that are brilliantly conceived and rendered."[2] He found Coltrane "simply masterful" on tenor saxophone with a "fully formed instrumental voice" that "shine[s] through in the most illuminating manner", and wrote of the album's standing in his catalog:

Even more than any platitudes one can heap on this extraordinary recording, it historically falls between the albums Olé Coltrane and Impressions — completing a triad of studio efforts that are as definitive as anything Coltrane ever produced, and highly representative of him in his prime.[2]

Francis Davis of The Village Voice felt that, apart from the "modal, three-quarter time novelty hit" "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for "the gorgeous 'Soul Eyes' and a shattering 'Out of This World'."[7]

Track listing

Side One

  1. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 14:06
  2. "Soul Eyes" (Mal Waldron) – 5:26

Side Two

  1. "The Inch Worm" (Frank Loesser) – 6:19
  2. "Tunji" (Coltrane) – 6:33
  3. "Miles' Mode" (Coltrane) – 7:31
  • Both sides were combined as tracks 1–5 on the CD reissue.

1997 CD bonus tracks

  1. "Big Nick" (Coltrane) – 4:04
  2. "Up 'Gainst The Wall" (Coltrane) – 3:13

2002 deluxe edition

Disc One

  1. "Out of This World" – 14:04
  2. "Soul Eyes" – 5:25
  3. "The Inch Worm" – 6:14
  4. "Tunji" – 6:32
  5. "Miles' Mode" – 7:31

Disc Two

  1. "Not Yet" (Tyner) – 6:13
  2. "Miles' Mode" – 7:08
  3. "Tunji" – 10:41
  4. "Tunji" – 7:55
  5. "Tunji" – 7:16
  6. "Tunji" – 7:48
  7. "Impressions" (Coltrane) – 6:32
  8. "Impressions" – 4:33
  9. "Big Nick" – 4:28
  10. "Up 'Gainst the Wall" – 3:15

Personnel

References
  1. "July Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. The Cash Box, New York. 21 July 1962. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  2. Nastoes, Michael G. Review: Coltrane. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-10-05.
  3. Down Beat: October 11, 1962 vol. 29, no. 26
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 46. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  7. Frances Davis (2006-05-30). "The John Coltrane Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
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